16 research outputs found
Sounds of Soil: A New World of Interactions under Our Feet?
Soils are biodiversity-dense and constantly carry chemical flows of information, with our mental image of soil being dark and quiet. But what if soil biota tap sound, or more generally, vibrations as a source of information? Vibrations are produced by soil biota, and there is accumulating evidence that such vibrations, including sound, may also be perceived. We here argue for potential advantages of sound/vibration detection, which likely revolve around detection of potential danger, e.g., predators. Substantial methodological retooling will be necessary to capture this form of information, since sound-related equipment is not standard in soils labs, and in fact this topic is very much at the fringes of the classical soil research at present. Sound, if firmly established as a mode of information exchange in soil, could be useful in an âacoustics-basedâ precision agriculture as a means of assessing aspects of soil biodiversity, and the topic of sound pollution could move into focus for soil biota and processes
Ten simple rules for hosting artists in a scientific lab
Hosting an artist in a scientific lab is likely a new experience for many scientists in the natural and engineering sciences, and perhaps also for many artists, yet it can be a very beneficial experience for both parties [1]. âArt and science are in a tension that is most fruitful when these disciplines observe and penetrate each other and experience how much of the other they themselves still containâ [2]. During our science and art collaborations in the last years, we have learned what connects and what separates our disciplines, how different yet common our worlds of working and thinking are, and how stimulating such collaborations can be. Although scientists and artists belong to two different cultural worlds, many share research as a congruent method to explore and understand the world around us. Often, scientific and artistic work spaces are indistinguishable as they are full of equipment, materials, tools, and computers to run experiments and analyze data [3,4]. Science and art are fundamentally connected through their focus on creativity [5]. Also, both scientists and artists deliberately venture into the public realm in the spirit of Hannah Arendt: âHumanity is never won in loneliness and never by handing oneâs work over to the public. Only if you take your life and person[ality] into the venture of the public realm, will you reach [humanity]â [6]. At the most fundamental level, science and art both try to understand the world around us and to guide society to recognize and solve problems. Artistic and scientific research may also have much more in common than one expects at first sight: They both involve years of schools and personal development, they both involve trial and error, and the sharing of results with different communities.
However, transdisciplinary cooperation requires openness, a willingness to take risks, the ability for self-reflection, respect, and esteem for the other culture as well as a lot of appreciative listening from both parties [7,8]. Our paper thus intends to serve as a practical guide for both, artists-in-residence and the hosting scientific lab to easier cross borders, to better collaborate, to better learn from each other, and to sustainably bridge the different cultures of science and the arts. Our discussion starts at the point where a decision for such an interaction has already taken place. Still wondering if this is for you? There is much to gain for both sides. For the scientists, for example, this interaction can be a source of new ideas and questions, offering new points of view. Some of us also felt that this interaction offered training in explaining research in clear, simple language, and provided opportunities for interfacing with the science-curious public in a curated context. For the artists, this can be about learning new tools, methods, and approaches and about the specific topics on which a lab works
Basculement des mondes
A lâheure oĂč le changement climatique est une problĂ©matique majeure qui nĂ©cessite de repenser nos maniĂšres de vivre, les artistes nous invitent Ă apprĂ©hender les recherches scientifiques et le devenir du vivant, par le sensible. Des enjeux environnementaux, des processus naturels, du microcosme Ă lâĂ©chelle dâun milieu, parfois en relation avec des scientifiques, ils sont tĂ©moins, inventeurs et crĂ©ent des Ćuvres qui proposent des expĂ©riences. Ils rendent perceptible lâĂ©tat de notre environnement, en bouleversement. Si les processus de vie de la nature fascinent et inspirent, ils provoquent aussi des Ă©motions, ravivent des souvenirs, des rĂ©cits et conduisent Ă ressentir son propre corps. De ce contact naĂźt la comprĂ©hension du vĂ©gĂ©tal, sa maniĂšre dâĂȘtre et de se transformer selon les lieux et conditions oĂč il se trouve. Lâinvisible, lâau-delĂ se dĂ©couvre par lâexpĂ©rience physique, lâĂ©coute et le touchĂ©. Dâun fragment, dâune matiĂšre naturelle ou dâun Ă©lĂ©ment collectĂ©, les artistes, parfois en collaboration avec des scientifiques, nous donnent Ă voir et Ă Ă©couter le temps de la nature. Ainsi, les Ćuvres sont chacune un monde oĂč plonger son regard, prendre le temps de comprendre une dĂ©couverte scientifique ou se laisser surprendre et aiguiser sa curiositĂ© sur les ressources naturelles, Ă prĂ©server. Elles proposent des moments de contemplation, dâexploration Ă la fois visuelle, sonore et tactile. Elles nous amĂšnent Ă prendre conscience des phĂ©nomĂšnes naturels. Ainsi, les Ćuvres rendront perceptible lâĂ©tat de notre environnement, en bouleversement. Elles proposeront des moments de contemplation, dâexploration et de prise de conscience des phĂ©nomĂšnes naturels. La tension entre la fragilitĂ© et la puissance de la nature sera alors rĂ©vĂ©lĂ©e. La Maison des arts plastiques Rosa Bonheur sera un laboratoire, un jardin, un espace de cultures, pour une observation des microcosmes, de formes vĂ©gĂ©tales, dâĂ©lĂ©ments instables et des dynamiques du paysage. Cette exposition remplira dâĂ©merveillement sur les formes de la nature, sa capacitĂ© de grandir, de se dĂ©velopper et de produire des sons
Vertimus â Une saison dans le marais #2. Le printemps..
Exposition Ă l a Maison de la Culture de Bourge du 30/03 au 27/06/202
Vertimus â An Art and Science Project
Section Art et ScienceI was in the shop tuning up a Khan-Arachnid orchid with the UV lamp. It was a difficult bloom, with a normal full range of twenty-four octaves, but unless it got a lot of exercise it tended to relapse into neurotic minor key transpositions which were the devil to break. And as the senior bloom in the shop it naturally affected all the others. Invariably when I opened the shop in the mornings, it sounded like a madhouse, but as soon as Iâd fed the Arachnid and straightened out one or two pH gradients the rest promptly took their cues from it and dimmed down quietly in their control tanks, two-time, three-four, the multi-tones, all in perfect harmony.â JG Ballard, âPrima Belladonnaâ, Vermilion Sands
La croissance artistique et lâĂ©nergie des vĂ©gĂ©taux.
Aujourdâhui un certain nombre dâartistes travaillant avec la nature se sont intĂ©ressĂ©s Ă lâĂ©nergie produite par les plantes, toutes sortes de plantes, comme les arbres par exemple, si nĂ©cessaires dans les villes dont ils constituent un poumonvert, libĂ©rant une Ă©nergie perceptible Ă la fois physiquement et mentalement. Les artistes, en tentant de comprendre comment nous partageons avec les vĂ©gĂ©taux un mĂȘme environnement, mettent en lumiĂšre Ă leur façon la complexitĂ© de nos rapports avec eux. Ainsi font-ils Ă©cho Ă ce que les scientifiques explorent de leur cĂŽtĂ©, comme lâĂ©quipe MECA, un groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire de biomĂ©canique intĂ©grative de lâarbre Ă©tudiant Ă lâINRA les sensibilitĂ©s des plantes aux changements environnementaux. Câest naturellement lâaspect sensible de ces Ă©tudes qui intĂ©resse le plus le monde de lâart. Des propos comme ceux de Bruno Moulia y trouvent un Ă©cho certain : âLes plantes savent trĂšs bien percevoir le vent et son intensitĂ©. Câest trĂšs important puisque le vent est un Ă©norme danger pour elles. Si elles sont exposĂ©es au vent, elles vont sâadapter et limiter leur croissance en hauteur, augmenter leur croissance en diamĂštre et donc ĂȘtre plus trapues2.
Vertimus: We Are Turning Around, Upside Down, We Are Changing, We Are Switching
Bonneval will present her collaborative projects across art and science around the topic of trees. She will discuss Dendromacy, a series of workshops, installations, and films developed with teams of ecophysiologists that considers tree intimacies and rethinking trees; Listen to the Earth, a collaboration with fungi specialists, microbiologists, bioacousticians, and soil scientists from Paris, Berlin, and Ithaca that is based on recent research on linkages between sound, soil, plant root behavior, and fungi; and Vertimus, or, how to move with plants, a collaborative project with Eric Badel and Bruno Moulia from PIAF, INRA Lab in Clermont Ferrand, France
Sounds of Soil: A New World of Interactions under Our Feet?
Soils are biodiversity-dense and constantly carry chemical flows of information, with our mental image of soil being dark and quiet. But what if soil biota tap sound, or more generally, vibrations as a source of information? Vibrations are produced by soil biota, and there is accumulating evidence that such vibrations, including sound, may also be perceived. We here argue for potential advantages of sound/vibration detection, which likely revolve around detection of potential danger, e.g., predators. Substantial methodological retooling will be necessary to capture this form of information, since sound-related equipment is not standard in soils labs, and in fact this topic is very much at the fringes of the classical soil research at present. Sound, if firmly established as a mode of information exchange in soil, could be useful in an ‘acoustics-based’ precision agriculture as a means of assessing aspects of soil biodiversity, and the topic of sound pollution could move into focus for soil biota and processes
Les formes contemporaines du voisinage. Espaces résidentiels et intégration sociale
Ce rapport prĂ©sente les rĂ©sultats de la recherche "Voisinages". Elle s'appuie sur deux grandes enquĂȘtes de terrain : une enquĂȘte par questionnaires (lâenquĂȘte Mon quartier, mes voisins), rĂ©alisĂ©e en 2018, puis une enquĂȘte post-questionnaire par entretiens, rĂ©alisĂ©e en 2019. Elles ont permis d'Ă©tudier les relations de voisinage dans divers types de quartiers et contextes urbains (quartiers bourgeois en ville-centre, quartiers gentrifiĂ©s en ville-centre, quartiers populaires en ville-centre, quartiers de mixitĂ© sociale programmĂ©e, Grands ensembles en rĂ©novation urbaine, petites villes pĂ©riurbaines, communes pĂ©riurbaines rurales) en rĂ©gion parisienne et lyonnaise.
Cette recherche a Ă©tĂ© rĂ©alisĂ©e sous la responsabilitĂ© scientifique de Jean-Yves Authier (Professeur de sociologie Ă lâuniversitĂ© Lyon 2) par une Ă©quipe de chercheurËes composĂ©e de : Jean-Yves Authier, LoĂŻc Bonneval, Josette Debroux, Laurence Faure, Karine Pietropaoli et Isabelle Mallon (Centre Max Weber), Joanie Cayouette-RembliĂšre et AurĂ©lie Santos (Ined), Eric Charmes (Rives, EVS), AnaĂŻs Collet (SAGE), Colin Giraud (CRESPPA/INRAE) et HĂ©lĂšne Steinmetz (IDEES), avec la contribution de Laure CrĂ©pin (CRESPPA).
Elle a Ă©tĂ© financĂ©e par lâUnion sociale pour lâhabitat (USH) â et les FĂ©dĂ©rations nationales des CoopâHlm, des ESH, des OPH et ABC Hlm, Alliade Habitat, Alpes IsĂšre Habitat, APES-DSU, AORiF, AURA Hlm, Grand-Lyon Habitat, Groupe Polylogis, Groupe Valophis, Habitat en rĂ©gion, Paris Habitat, Sacoviv ; lâAgence nationale pour la cohĂ©sion des territoires (ANCT) ; lâInstitut pour la recherche de la Caisse des dĂ©pĂŽts et consignations (CDC) ; le Plan urbanisme construction architecture (PUCA) ; la MĂ©tropole de Lyon et la Ville de Paris.
Elle a été gérée administrativement par Kamel Guerchouche (Centre Max Weber).
LâenquĂȘte « Mon quartier, mes voisins », qui constitue le coeur de cette recherche, a Ă©tĂ© rĂ©alisĂ©e sous la direction de Jean-Yves Authier et Joanie Cayouette-RembliĂšre, avec lâappui du service des enquĂȘtes de lâIned : GwennaĂ«lle Brilhaut, GĂ©raldine Charrance, Bernard de ClĂ©dat, ValĂ©rie LaprĂ©e, Kamel Nait Abdellah, Sandrine Ragazzi, Amandine Stephan et Lamia Temime
Les formes contemporaines du voisinage. Espaces résidentiels et intégration sociale
Ce rapport prĂ©sente les rĂ©sultats de la recherche "Voisinages". Elle s'appuie sur deux grandes enquĂȘtes de terrain : une enquĂȘte par questionnaires (lâenquĂȘte Mon quartier, mes voisins), rĂ©alisĂ©e en 2018, puis une enquĂȘte post-questionnaire par entretiens, rĂ©alisĂ©e en 2019. Elles ont permis d'Ă©tudier les relations de voisinage dans divers types de quartiers et contextes urbains (quartiers bourgeois en ville-centre, quartiers gentrifiĂ©s en ville-centre, quartiers populaires en ville-centre, quartiers de mixitĂ© sociale programmĂ©e, Grands ensembles en rĂ©novation urbaine, petites villes pĂ©riurbaines, communes pĂ©riurbaines rurales) en rĂ©gion parisienne et lyonnaise.Cette recherche a Ă©tĂ© rĂ©alisĂ©e sous la responsabilitĂ© scientifique de Jean-Yves Authier (Professeur de sociologie Ă lâuniversitĂ© Lyon 2) par une Ă©quipe de chercheurËes composĂ©e de : Jean-Yves Authier, LoĂŻc Bonneval, Josette Debroux, Laurence Faure, Karine Pietropaoli et Isabelle Mallon (Centre Max Weber), Joanie Cayouette-RembliĂšre et AurĂ©lie Santos (Ined), Eric Charmes (Rives, EVS), AnaĂŻs Collet (SAGE), Colin Giraud (CRESPPA/INRAE) et HĂ©lĂšne Steinmetz (IDEES), avec la contribution de Laure CrĂ©pin (CRESPPA). Elle a Ă©tĂ© financĂ©e par lâUnion sociale pour lâhabitat (USH) â et les FĂ©dĂ©rations nationales des CoopâHlm, des ESH, des OPH et ABC Hlm, Alliade Habitat, Alpes IsĂšre Habitat, APES-DSU, AORiF, AURA Hlm, Grand-Lyon Habitat, Groupe Polylogis, Groupe Valophis, Habitat en rĂ©gion, Paris Habitat, Sacoviv ; lâAgence nationale pour la cohĂ©sion des territoires (ANCT) ; lâInstitut pour la recherche de la Caisse des dĂ©pĂŽts et consignations (CDC) ; le Plan urbanisme construction architecture (PUCA) ; la MĂ©tropole de Lyon et la Ville de Paris.Elle a Ă©tĂ© gĂ©rĂ©e administrativement par Kamel Guerchouche (Centre Max Weber).LâenquĂȘte « Mon quartier, mes voisins », qui constitue le coeur de cette recherche, a Ă©tĂ© rĂ©alisĂ©e sous la direction de Jean-Yves Authier et Joanie Cayouette-RembliĂšre, avec lâappui du service des enquĂȘtes de lâIned : GwennaĂ«lle Brilhaut, GĂ©raldine Charrance, Bernard de ClĂ©dat, ValĂ©rie LaprĂ©e, Kamel Nait Abdellah, Sandrine Ragazzi, Amandine Stephan et Lamia Temime